An early, short version of the text at the core of chapter 2 was published as “The Weirdness of Being in Time: Aristotle, Hegel, and Plants” in Philosophy and Rhetoric, 54(4), 2021, pp. 333–347. Chapter 3, “Cosmic [Tree] Time,” appeared as a contribution to the book, Notes on Ex-Futures, edited by Johanna Gustafsson Fürst and Asier Mendizabal (Stockholm: Praun & Guermouche, 2023). This book has been financially supported by GAIT, the Basque Government research group on “Social change, emerging forms of subjectivity, and identity in contemporary societies” (IT1469-22) to which I belong. I thank Erika Mandarino and Helena Schöb of Brill for their unwaivering support for this project and the book series as a whole. With this, I hand Time Is a Plant back to time and to plants, by publishing the work, by making it publically visible—a visibility that nevertheless remains ensconced in the obscurity of everything that made it possible.
